How to Use perquisite in a Sentence

perquisite

noun

• Use of the company's jet is a perquisite of the job.
• The parking perquisite has evolved into a point of pride.
  — Melissa Korn, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2018
• Casual swearing is a great perquisite of adulthood, and one of the first that kids attempt to seize for themselves.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Yorker, 19 May 2020
• To be sure, Mayorga’s civil case would have been strengthened by Ronaldo being charged, but a charge is a not perquisite to the case.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 22 July 2019
• Hunter fils was also a military bro, enjoying the hell out of his status and the perquisites inherent in his office.
  — Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2019
• The basic perquisites of a middle-class life, including a secure old age, are no longer attainable for most Americans.
  — Joseph E. Stiglitz, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2018
• Companies can offer it as a perquisite for employees or something an employee pays a few dollars for out of each paycheck.
  — Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News, 13 May 2018
• Instead, the legitimacy and perquisites conferred by U.N. membership might have helped the regime survive.
  — Claudia Rosett, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2017
• The misuse of government travel and other perquisites of office has been a persistent theme of the Trump administration.
  — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2018
• Dividing up the funds of the Port Authority, which collects tolls at bridges and tunnels and fees and rents at the metropolitan area’s three major airports, has long been a perquisite of the governors of the two states.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• The Courant calculates compensation as the sum of salary, bonuses, value gained on the exercise of stock options and vesting of stock awards and value of perquisites, such as a retirement plan and personal use of the company’s plane.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• As the job market tightens, many employers are creating more perquisites and positive work environments for workers.
  — Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2017
• Yet even after these industrial and financial titans had begun to avail themselves of such perquisites, our heads of state maintained lingering reservations about priority treatment.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
• Other compensation typically includes benefits and perquisites.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 1 June 2016

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024